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We work with clients to deliver business focused solutions that are tailored to their individual requirements.Our success is driven by the quality of our work, practical attitude and the strong relationships we build with our clients. Our managing partners have a combined experience of over 30 years in business technology, together with a trusted network.

London, United Kingdom

Managing multiple projects with full accountability for end-to-end delivery.Implemented first UK delivery of Blackrock Aladdin application suite (Green Package Risk Reports) to Aviva Investors UK.LatentZero implementation – set-up and managed project to successfully upgrade application suite from unsupported versions including construction of new testing.

London, Zurich

Managed implementation of Fidessa LatentZero suite of programmes into CSAM UK. Provided consultancy & architectural advice to Swiss and Singapore based programmes. Managed integration of CSAM middle & backoffice systems into LatentZero suite.Managed design, build and maintenance of development, test and production environments to support programme.

London, United Kingdom

Successfully managed the upgrade of Latentzero’s Capstone product suite (Sentinel, Minerva & Tesseract) across the Fixed Income & Equity trading divisions and the Risk departments of Threadneedle.

London, United Kingdom

Undertook a project to provide data-centre space to commercial clients

London, United Kingdom

• Provided a wide range of project management and consultancy activities. Directly responsible for a small team and also directing & influencing a wide range of resources. Delivered a number of projects, all to schedule.
• Initially brought in to troubleshoot & stabilise order management systems.
• Authored study on potential replacement OMS applications and made technical recommendations.
• Project managed a team of specialists to perform the technical implementation of the LatentZero Capstone product suite into the Threadneedle Asset Management business. o In charge of overall planning and execution of.
• Provided technical guidance, support and direction to the development & support teams within Threadneedle and to the software vendor regarding the LatentZero product suite.
• On-going in-depth support to application & production teams including third line overnight assistance when required.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed all aspects of service delivery to the middle office & operations department.
• Managed a team of support professionals. Established good working practices, cross training and the elimination of ‘key-man’ dependencies within the team.
• First point of contact for business management: problem ownership, user request task scheduling and IT/user communication.
• Responsible for providing a quality, production service to the department.
• Regular liaison with senior business and IT management.

London, United Kingdom

• Successfully managed the upgrade (hardware, operating system, middleware, applications, and database) of several of the banks’ core systems that were due to go out of vendor support.
• Managed a number of teams, which inspected and performed remediation of 700 user application screens and 850 batch programs to support the new version of the database.
• Removed unsupported middleware by replacing it with client-based applications using VB wrappers around embedded SQL.
• Delivered complete operational DR procedures using SAN technology.
• The project spanned London and Hong Kong where the systems were replicated. In addition was used as consultant on the technical issues, liaison between departments, locations and programme steering committee.
• £8m Project successfully delivered to schedule

London, United Kingdom

• Successfully implemented a global front office into the Chase/Fleming’s operational environment to support the bank’s Asset Management business.
• Managed a team of technical specialists to successfully complete the implementation within tight timescales.
• Interacted with and influenced the development teams decision-making in London and Hong Kong to ensure the applications met with London operational requirements.
• Set-up and maintained multiple environments for development, test, production, and disaster recovery.
• Provided support and advice to development teams on technical issues, architecture and general problem solving.
• Modified and extended the project architecture to fit into the London operating environment.

London, United Kingdom

Various technical project management roles implementing systems in the retail and investment Management areas. Highlights include: consultancy on development practices, performance tuning and implementation of Fund pricing system. Consultancy on implementing call centre application based on Siebel, Sybase, IBM MQ interfacing to legacy AS400 and DB2.

London, United Kingdom

Front Office Development & Support

London, Amsterdam

SQL-Server, Sybase and Ingres production & development services initally for Hoare Govett and then ABN AMRO Bank

London, Hong Kong

Managing all aspects of IT requirements and development for Fleming's Global Derivatives Department Globally

London, United Kingdom

DBA for Investment Management system redevelopment and subsequent support in production

London

Technical, Programming and Database Administration both pre and post sales support

Bristol, United Kingdom

Sandwich Student

Ba (Hons), Systems Analysis

Activities and Societies: Founder member of the university rowing club

Education record

Activities and Societies: Deputy Head Boy Rowing Club Finalist in the National Running the British Economy Competition (1984)